Lower School Music Teacher and Teacher Assistant

Job Description

Lower School Music Teacher and Teacher Assistant

Job Description
Chelsea Academy is seeking a highly motivated faculty member to provide music instruction to grades K-5 and support Lower School classrooms during the 2025-2026 academic year. Desired candidates should have experience with younger students, a knowledge and appreciation of the Catholic intellectual tradition, classical liberal arts pedagogy, a passion for educating and forming Christian youth, and a spirit of adventure. Important characteristics include: competence in music education, classroom management skills, a focus on student learning, ability to collaborate on a team, flexibility, and enthusiasm.

Mission:
Chelsea Academy seeks to form confident young men and women educated in the liberal arts tradition and the Catholic faith from Kindergarten through 12th grade. The Academy is committed to promoting and cultivating in its students the life of the mind and the love of truth; an appreciation for the natural world and the heritage of human achievement; enduring friendships; a spirit of adventure; and the virtues of honesty, diligence, courage, piety, and personal responsibility. Through an ethos shaped by Catholic teaching and devotions and a balanced curriculum that includes the humanities, sciences, the arts, and athletics, Chelsea Academy provides students with opportunities for developing themselves into adults who are capable of making positive contributions to their families, places of work, and communities.

Qualifications:
1. Required: Practicing Catholic in good standing
2. Required: Bachelor's Degree; experience and/or education in music
3. Preferred: Master's Degree; Virginia Teacher's License (not required)
4. Other Desired Qualifications:
a. Polished and effective oral and written communication skills
b. Ability to develop and deliver effective lesson plans
c. Ability to manage a classroom environment
d. Ability to relate well with students
e. Ability to be flexible in a smaller-school environment
f. Willingness to work with classroom teachers to integrate the discipline within curriculum

Hours: Music instruction 9 hours per week; additional TA hours can be flexible up to a total of 40 hours per week

Compensation and Benefits: Competitive and commensurate with experience.

Application Instructions:
Email or mail cover letter, CV or resume, and three references to the contact below. This posting will remain active until filled.

Contact: Mr. Brian J. Peppiatt, Dean of Lower School
Email: frontoffice@chelseaacademy.org (Subject: "Music Teacher")

Chelsea Academy
1190 Progress Drive
Front Royal, VA 22630
Tel: 540.635.0622

More information about Chelsea Academy can be found at www.chelseaacademy.org

About the Employer

Founded in 2008, Chelsea Academy seeks to form confident young men and women educated in the liberal arts tradition and the Catholic faith. Chelsea is committed to promoting and cultivating in its students the life of the mind and the love of truth; an appreciation for the natural world and the heritage of human achievement; enduring friendships; a spirit of adventure; and the virtues of honesty, diligence, courage, piety, and personal responsibility.

Through an ethos shaped by Catholic teaching and devotions and a curriculum that includes the humanities, sciences, the arts, and athletics, Chelsea provides students with opportunities to develop into adults capable of making positive contributions to their families, places of work, and communities.